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How asthma develops from exposure to house dust mites
Medical Xpress University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found a previously unknown step in the pathway that leads to asthma, a discovery that may offer new therapeutic approaches to this incurable disease. Asthma affects more than 25 million people in the … |
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8th Grader Rescues Classmate From Asthma Attack, Gets Suspended: How Schools Can Improve Asthma Preparedness
Medical Daily 15 year-old Anthony Ruelas was not rewarded for carrying an asthmatic classmate to the school nurse – he was suspended for it. Ruelas' eighth grade class at Gateway Middle School, an alternative school in the Killeen Independent School District in … Teen suspended for helping friend having asthma attack will be home-schooled Parents praise student who helped asthmatic daughter, deny claims attack was fake Texas mom vows to homeschool son who was suspended for taking classmate to nurse during asthma attack |
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Effect of Prenatal Supplementation With Vitamin D on Asthma or Recurrent Wheezing in Offspring by Age 3 Years: The …
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Importance Asthma and wheezing begin early in life, and prenatal vitamin D deficiency has been variably associated with these disorders in offspring. Objective To determine whether prenatal vitamin D (cholecalciferol) supplementation can prevent asthma … Prenatal Vitamin D and Baby's Asthma Risk Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy, risk of asthma, wheezing in offspring The JAMA Network Journals Does Prenatal Supplementation With Vitamin D Affect Childhood Asthma? |
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Anti-asthma drugs taken during pregnancy associated with autism risk
Medical Xpress B2AR agonist drugs—which include salmetereol and formoterol—are used to relax the bronchial passages in a person's lungs, providing a release from the constricting nature of asthma. According to the study, B2AR drugs can cross the placenta and reach … Study: Anti-asthma drugs taken during pregnancy associated with autism risk Drexel University |
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Characteristics of reversible and nonreversible COPD and asthma and COPD …
Dove Medical Press Abstract: The choice of inhaler device for bronchodilator reversibility is crucial since suboptimal inhalation technique may influence the result. On the other hand, bronchodilator response also varies from time to time and may depend on patient … |
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Are childhood asthma rates declining?
Medical Xpress Childhood asthma has made headlines in recent years because of an upward trend in the number of cases. That may have changed: A government study published in the journal Pediatrics shows asthma rates may be leveling off or declining, but not for poor … |
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Medical care and treatment of allergic rhinitis. A population-based cohort study based on routine healthcare utilization data.
Allergy. 2016 Jan 8;
Authors: Schmitt J, Stadler E, Küster D, Wüstenberg EG
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health services research on medical care and treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR) is scarce.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence, incidence, comorbidities, and treatment of AR in a realistic setting.
METHODS: A cohort of 1,811,094 German National Health Insurance beneficiaries in 2005 was followed until 2011. To avoid misclassification, the ICD-10-code for AR (J30) had to be documented at least twice to classify patients as having AR. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used to describe the burden, comorbidities, and treatment of AR.
RESULTS: A total of 111,394 patients (6.2%) had prevalent AR in 2005/2006. In another 60,145 individuals (3.3%) AR was newly diagnosed in 2007 to 2011 (incident cases). Patients with prevalent AR were three times more likely to develop asthma compared to patients without AR (age and sex-adjusted risk ratio (RR) 3.04; 95% confidence interval (95%CI) 2.98 – 3.10). Newly diagnosed recurrent depressive disorder (RR 1.61; 95%CI 1.55 – 1.68), anxiety disorder (RR 1.52; 95%CI 1.48 – 1.56) and ADHD (RR 1.21; 95%CI 1.13 – 1.29) were also related to prevalent AR. Approximately 20% of children and 36% of adults with AR were exclusively treated by general practitioners. Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) was prescribed for 16.4% of AR patients. Subcutaneous immunotherapy was most frequently used (80% of AIT).
CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the significant burden of AR. Despite the established benefits of AIT to treat AR and prevent asthma this study suggests significant undertreatment. Future research is necessary to develop and implement adequate measures to increase guideline adherence. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PMID: 26749452 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Predicting frequent asthma exacerbations using blood eosinophil count and …
Dove Medical Press Patients and methods: Medical records of 130,547 asthma patients aged 12–80 years from the UK Optimum Patient Care Research Database and Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 1990–2013, were examined for 1 year before (baseline) and 1 year after … |
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Asthma linked to increased risk of shingles
Medical News Today Of the 371 shingles patients, 87 (23%) had asthma, compared with 114 of the 742 (15%) controls. Using a statistical method called logistic regression, the researchers calculated that adults with asthma appeared to have a 70% higher risk of developing … Childhood Asthma May Be 'Unrecognized Risk Factor' For Shingles Later On In Life Childhood asthma may increase risks of shingles Shingles Risk Higher In Patients Who Had Childhood Asthma |
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Childhood Asthma May Be 'Unrecognized Risk Factor' For Shingles Later On In Life
Medical Daily The researchers, hailing primarily from the Mayo Clinic, found that adults who came down with the viral disease shingles (herpes zoster) were more likely to report a history of asthma compared to those in a control group. Extrapolating from that, they … Childhood asthma may increase risks of shingles Shingles Risk Higher In Patients Who Had Childhood Asthma Asthma may increase risk of painful skin rash |
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